Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
The Bank Holiday weekend was gorgeous here – That ‘s almost worth a blog post in its own right, but we also spent much of Monday in Aberystwyth and had a lovely walk through the Penglais Woods nature Reserve. The Bluebells are really early this year and are actually coming towards the end of their...
Like almost everyone in the country, we’ve been enjoying the spring sunshine, sometimes from within our new conservatory which is now finished and is a lovely place to sit and watch the world go by, other times from within the garden itself. We’re not the only ones either, the plants and flowers seem to be...
It was a fairly quiet night for the moth trap last night, just 11 moths and 8 different species, but we did get an Emperor moth which is always a treat. 2x Powdered Quaker 3 x Hebrew Character 1x Emperor Moth 1 x Common Quaker 1 x Shoulder Stripe 1 x Double-striped Pug 1 x...
After fencing all day and a warm evening, it looked like a nice night for some moth trapping so out went the trap and then Morgan and I examined it this morning. There weren’t huge quantities in there but there was a nice selection including some more impressive ones. 7 x Shoulder stripe 1 x...
The weather is improving and as the forecast was for a warm,, dry, windless night I put the moth-trap out before heading off for a mountain bike ride in the Dyfi Forest. On the drive home there were bats flying everywhere. They must have been out catching moths and other insects so it looked as though it should be a good...
A few more photos from my GoPRo HD camera set in time-lapse mode next to the bird feeder. Click here for my first attempts.
I thought I’d try to use my GoPro HD video camera to do some wildlife photography. So, I set it to timelapse mode where it will take a still photo using its 5 Megapixel camera every 30 seconds. I then attached it to the pergola, pretty close to the bird feeder. Topped up the bird...
I spotted a couple of Skylarks in the garden this morning. We see quite a few around here and on sunny days in the summer can hear them singing constantly whilst in their distinction display flight. It’s good to see them because, although they are the UK’s commonest lark, in recent times the Skylark population...
Continuing my efforts to do some moth photography, aiming for more aesthetic photos rather than photos purely for identification and recording purposes, here are a couple of the more common Spring moths. It was a fairly chilly, breezy night last night so numbers in the trap were low. 3 x Shoulder Stripe 8 x Common...
After the success of Sunday nights Moth Trapping I thought I’d have another go on Monday. The skies were a little clearer so temperatures dropped to 5.7ºC but with light winds we still had quite a good haul: 1 x Mottled Grey 20 x Shoulder stripe 3 x Emmelina monodactyla 7 x Dotted Border 4 x...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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